Theda Bara, ‘The Vamp’

The studios created a fictitious persona for Bara as a woman born in the Sahara ‘in the shadow of the Sphinx’ to an Italian Sculptor father and a French mother. They created an heir of mystery claiming she dabbled in the occult. Her contract requite that she wear a veil in public and only come out at night. They even mentioned the fact that her name was an anagram for ‘Arab Death’

Bara made more than 40 films in her career, but most were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire and only 6 of her completed films remain.

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Theda Bara, ‘The Vamp’

Bara was born Theodosia Burr Goodman in 1885 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father was a Jewish tailor from Poland and her mother was born in Switzerland. Her stage name, Bara was taken from her grandfather named Baringer. She was a popular actress of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. She earned the nickname "The Vamp" because of her sexually seductive roles. The studios created a fictitious persona for Bara as a woman born in the Sahara ‘in the shadow of the Sphinx’ to an Italian Sculptor father and a French mother. They created an heir of mystery claiming she dabbled in the occult. Her contract requite that she wear a veil in public and only come out at night. They even mentioned the fact that her name was an anagram for ‘Arab Death’

Bara made more than 40 films in her career, but most were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire and only 6 of her completed films remain.

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Mary Pickford (1935) Canadian star of silent films. By Glamour photographer George Hurrell [Source: Allison Marchant at flickr]

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"The Silence of the Femmes"

It is often said that the USA is the land of reinvention.

Identity in America has been malleable and saleable for centuries, whether it be fake preachers and prophets, or incoming congressmen claiming to be the progeny of Holocaust survivors.

Yet nowhere allows, indeed encourages, self-reinvention like Hollywood.

Read more at:

https://beforewewerewhite.com/2023/01/05/the-silence-of-the-femmes/

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